Aloysius Ventham
@paranoidaquinoid.bsky.social
Dr of Philosophy (metaethics and political philosophy). More interested in Dostoevsky than is healthy. Impossibly caffeinated. Working as a philosopher in Salzburg. Part of the Salzburg Ethics Group.
Philosophers who work on friendship, or something closely adjacent! I'm organising a workshop for March, see details (including on how to submit an abstract) here: philevents.org/event/show/1... #philsky #philosophy
Workshop on Friendship, and Friendship with the Morally Bad
We invite submissions for a two-day workshop on friendship to be held online, hosted by The University of Salzburg, Austria on the 5th and 6th of March, 2026.
In recent years, philosophers have incre...
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November 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Philosophers who work on friendship, or something closely adjacent! I'm organising a workshop for March, see details (including on how to submit an abstract) here: philevents.org/event/show/1... #philsky #philosophy
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HEUTE! 💭 Knowledge in Crisis mit Pint of Science Salzburg live im Antiquariat Weinek 🕕18:00. Eintritt frei (mit Reservierung)! Kommt vorbei für Denken, Trinken & gute Gespräche. 🍻🧠
#Salzburg #Philosophie #PintOfScience #kiCEvent
#Salzburg #Philosophie #PintOfScience #kiCEvent
Knowledge in Crisis X Pint of Science
Join us on November 7th for a special off-season event co-organised with Knowledge in Crisis!
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November 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
HEUTE! 💭 Knowledge in Crisis mit Pint of Science Salzburg live im Antiquariat Weinek 🕕18:00. Eintritt frei (mit Reservierung)! Kommt vorbei für Denken, Trinken & gute Gespräche. 🍻🧠
#Salzburg #Philosophie #PintOfScience #kiCEvent
#Salzburg #Philosophie #PintOfScience #kiCEvent
Just listened to the Foo Fighters song 'Everlong' for the first time in years and, man, that percussion track is wild. Dude's cardiovascular system is incredible.
November 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Just listened to the Foo Fighters song 'Everlong' for the first time in years and, man, that percussion track is wild. Dude's cardiovascular system is incredible.
I got an R&R for a paper a while ago and submitted my revisions over a month ago. The manuscript tracker still lists the revised paper as 'awaiting editor processing' - do I just leave it, or should I think about sending an email? #philsky #philosophy
November 5, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I got an R&R for a paper a while ago and submitted my revisions over a month ago. The manuscript tracker still lists the revised paper as 'awaiting editor processing' - do I just leave it, or should I think about sending an email? #philsky #philosophy
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Next year there will be a conference on the phil/o breakups! When I started my PhD there was *nothing* written on break-ups, but since then there has been amazing work on the end of relationships by ppl like Monika Betzler, Chris Crowley, Joe Saunders, or Richard Healy. Already can’t wait for this!
Philosophy of Breakups
This is a call for abstracts to present at The Philosophy of Breakups, organized by the Conceptual Foundations of Conflict Project at the University of Southern California. Please submit a PDF f...
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November 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Next year there will be a conference on the phil/o breakups! When I started my PhD there was *nothing* written on break-ups, but since then there has been amazing work on the end of relationships by ppl like Monika Betzler, Chris Crowley, Joe Saunders, or Richard Healy. Already can’t wait for this!
So far this week I've worked 20hrs...it's Tuesday. Luckily for me, I'm having a blast.
November 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
So far this week I've worked 20hrs...it's Tuesday. Luckily for me, I'm having a blast.
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Julie Rose and Tom Parr are two fantastic commentators to have!!! Looking forward to the discussion (online, see registration link on the website)! visions-for-the-future.sites.uu.nl/events/speak...
Speaker Series with Dr. Lisa Herzog
Online workshop on Lisa Herzog's 'The Democratic Marketplace. How a More Equal Economy Can Save Our Political Ideals' (Harvard University Press, 2025). With a presentation by Lisa Herzog (Groningen), ...
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November 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Julie Rose and Tom Parr are two fantastic commentators to have!!! Looking forward to the discussion (online, see registration link on the website)! visions-for-the-future.sites.uu.nl/events/speak...
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Our joint research project on depolarization now has a little web description! www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/en/fachberei...
DEveloping POLARIZation Interventions based on Empathy
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November 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Our joint research project on depolarization now has a little web description! www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/en/fachberei...
Goodbye Rome! I've had a blast. I'll especially miss the seagulls who joined me for breakfast on the balcony every morning.
November 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Goodbye Rome! I've had a blast. I'll especially miss the seagulls who joined me for breakfast on the balcony every morning.
Today I was invited to an audience with the Pope. I was so overwhelmed when I saw him I literally cried. I didn't get a pic of me shaking his hand, but here's a pic of him doing an initial pass on his Pope Mobile.
October 31, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Today I was invited to an audience with the Pope. I was so overwhelmed when I saw him I literally cried. I didn't get a pic of me shaking his hand, but here's a pic of him doing an initial pass on his Pope Mobile.
Hello from Saint Peter's
October 31, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Hello from Saint Peter's
Today I have an audience with Pope Leo XIV and I'm required to be at the Vatican 3hrs early... My neuroticism about time is now making me feel that I'm cutting things a but fine...
October 31, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Today I have an audience with Pope Leo XIV and I'm required to be at the Vatican 3hrs early... My neuroticism about time is now making me feel that I'm cutting things a but fine...
My part of the @fwf-at.bsky.social project proposal submitted! Now I'm just waiting for Salzburg Uni to stamp it on the system. Thanks to everyone who gave me feedback/listen to me prattle-on about friendship (there are very many of you). #philsky #philosophy
October 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
My part of the @fwf-at.bsky.social project proposal submitted! Now I'm just waiting for Salzburg Uni to stamp it on the system. Thanks to everyone who gave me feedback/listen to me prattle-on about friendship (there are very many of you). #philsky #philosophy
2nd day in Rome and 1st day of conference... So far literally everyone here is signicantly more senior than me, so it's going to be even cooler when I nail my talk (crosses fingers).
October 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
2nd day in Rome and 1st day of conference... So far literally everyone here is signicantly more senior than me, so it's going to be even cooler when I nail my talk (crosses fingers).
On a train to Rome (currently around Trento) listening to the trashiest 90s eurobeats and I cannot recommend it highly enough.
October 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
On a train to Rome (currently around Trento) listening to the trashiest 90s eurobeats and I cannot recommend it highly enough.
I'm organising a workshop on friendship for March next year and just fired out some speaker invitations. Stay tuned for updates! #philsky #philosophy
October 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I'm organising a workshop on friendship for March next year and just fired out some speaker invitations. Stay tuned for updates! #philsky #philosophy
Also, The Good Coffee Society branch I'm in is selling Prodigal Coffee... Oh nein, my bank balance...
October 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Also, The Good Coffee Society branch I'm in is selling Prodigal Coffee... Oh nein, my bank balance...
Good news, everybody. Im working in vienna again so that means I can grab some elite-tier coffees! Today I'm having a thermal shock processed Colombian coffee, roasted by The Coffee Source. Unglaublich!
October 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Good news, everybody. Im working in vienna again so that means I can grab some elite-tier coffees! Today I'm having a thermal shock processed Colombian coffee, roasted by The Coffee Source. Unglaublich!
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A short piece of mine has just been published in the @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social blog. If you're interested, check it out!
I think I get more nerd points for (only slightly gratuitous) Star Trek references.
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#PhilTech #NerdPoints #PhilSky #StarTrek
I think I get more nerd points for (only slightly gratuitous) Star Trek references.
justice-everywhere.org/education/ll...
#PhilTech #NerdPoints #PhilSky #StarTrek
LLMs can be harmful, even when not making stuff up
This is a guest post by Joe Slater (University of Glasgow). Provided by author It is well known that chatbots powered by LLMs – ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, etc. – sometimes make things up. People have s…
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October 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
A short piece of mine has just been published in the @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social blog. If you're interested, check it out!
I think I get more nerd points for (only slightly gratuitous) Star Trek references.
justice-everywhere.org/education/ll...
#PhilTech #NerdPoints #PhilSky #StarTrek
I think I get more nerd points for (only slightly gratuitous) Star Trek references.
justice-everywhere.org/education/ll...
#PhilTech #NerdPoints #PhilSky #StarTrek
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Call for Papers for 8th International Conference in Philosophy and Economics! Keynote speakers include Nancy Cartwright and Elizabeth Maggie Penn. For more info, see: philoeco2026.sciencesconf.org #philosophy #philsky #economics #econsky
8ème colloque international de philosophie économique - Sciencesconf.org
The 8th International Conference in Philosophy and Economics will be held in Nancy at the University of Lorraine on 21-22 May 2026 on the theme of
philoeco2026.sciencesconf.org
October 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Call for Papers for 8th International Conference in Philosophy and Economics! Keynote speakers include Nancy Cartwright and Elizabeth Maggie Penn. For more info, see: philoeco2026.sciencesconf.org #philosophy #philsky #economics #econsky
Just got a paper cut - it occurred to me as it happened that this happens a lot less than you'd expect given how much I read. Perhaps the first paper cut I've had in around 15 years. Hopefully I can beat that record...
October 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Just got a paper cut - it occurred to me as it happened that this happens a lot less than you'd expect given how much I read. Perhaps the first paper cut I've had in around 15 years. Hopefully I can beat that record...
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Special issue of Philosophical Quarterly on epistemic injustice, guest edited by Mona Simion:
Volume 75 Issue 4 | The Philosophical Quarterly | Oxford Academic
The official journal of the Scots Philosophical Association and the University of St. Andrews. Publishes high-quality articles from leading international scholars across the range of philosophical stu...
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October 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Special issue of Philosophical Quarterly on epistemic injustice, guest edited by Mona Simion:
My paper arguing that constitutivism is just a dressed-up Aristotelianism is out now. Check it out if that's your sort of thing #philsky #philosophy
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Agency as Normative Kind: Constitutivism as Aristotelianism
This paper argues that constitutivism is not a novel account but rather collapses into Aristotelianism albeit with new, conceptually clear and philosophically rich, terminology. The paper explores the...
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October 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
My paper arguing that constitutivism is just a dressed-up Aristotelianism is out now. Check it out if that's your sort of thing #philsky #philosophy
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Grumpy old man view of the day: people listening to music on public transport should be forced to wear headphones. When did this stop being a thing??
October 2, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Grumpy old man view of the day: people listening to music on public transport should be forced to wear headphones. When did this stop being a thing??
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Terrific list.
I'm working on a starter pack... its focus is Information Warfare, Covert Ops and Propaganda... trying to fill gaps on existing lists of 'disinfo' experts and bring in a wider sweep of experts on covert ops & information warfare, broadly defined. go.bsky.app/7NTCqKZ
September 25, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Terrific list.